Adoption of Management Practices of Goat Farming in Sirohi Tehsil of Sirohi District, Rajasthan, India

Total 80 respondents from Sirohi tehsil of Sirohi district from 4 randomly selected villages were used for this study. Total 80 respondents were used in this study. Results showed that 67.50% of respondents had partially adopted the goat management practices. Majority of the respondents highly adopted the feeding and marketing practice among the goat management practices. In breeding practices, heat detection by observing proper symptoms was highly adopted by goat owners and obtained overall first rank (MPS=91.35). In case of feeding practices, protection of pasture land from predator/wild animals through fencing was highly adopted by the goat owners and obtained first rank (MPS=93.33). Adoption of providing drinking water through in animal shed got first rank in housing practices. In case of health care practices, disposal of placenta was highly adopted by the goat owners and obtained first rank. Sale of buck at the marketing age was highly adopted among the marketing practices for getting higher price and obtained firstrank.